Outlook Super-luxury is still the key to success in our recession-prone country. Visit any of its posher towns and you see the evidence. Swank boutiques, antique emporia, sailing/hunting/horsey shops. The very wealthy are still here, and still spending. But the clearest sign of the moneyed environ is the presence of the Land Rover.

Building on their vision of 'Convergence' as the future of computing, Canonical - the creators of open-source OS Ubunutu - have launched a new Indiegogo campaign to create the Edge: a smartphone 'for the future' that will double up as desktop PC.